Uncertainty management issues in the object-oriented data model

IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 179-192

  George, Roy ^b   Srikanth, Radhakrishnan ^a,b   Petry, Fred E ^a,c   Buckles, Bill P ^a,c  

^a IEEE

^b CLARK ATLANTA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Tulane University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGEBRA; DATA STRUCTURES; FUZZY SETS; HIERARCHICAL SYSTEMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING; REDUNDANCY;

CLASS HIERARCHIES; OBJECT ORIENTED DATA MODEL; QUERY EQUALITY; UNCERTAINTY MANAGEMENT;

DATABASE SYSTEMS;

EID: 0030142934     PISSN: 10636706     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/91.493911     Document Type: Article

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